FAO SteveH

my Mk1 MR2 hit the limiter (well i don't think it had a limiter) but it was basically like whacking on the brakes as hard as you could. i was in second gear and trying to put my glasses on (need them for driving annoyingly) and i was nailing it down the road then WHACK! the car nosed dived forward. hurt my shoulder and dropped my glasses. i dipped the clutch as soon as i felt it and quickly put it into third. wouldn't do that again.

in the BM when you got close to the limiter the power would feel to die off just before and nothing really happened after. if you changed just before the limiter and found the sweet spot you'd come into the next gear just after 3k rpm where there is a nice torque surge :)

i think only motorbikes are worth hitting the limiter, a proper engine doesn't need to hit the limiter, get close but not hit it :)

Eww, it has a hard limiter.

How agricultural.

I did that earlier

It was doing over 80

It didn't do that, because I changed up at this point.

Seemed rude not to, given it was revving well into the red.

Oh, it was. But then I was on the bike. ;-)

Proper limiters are centrifugal and built into the rotor arm...

No, it has a bouncy limiter, but I only had to feel it to shift. I take it you flavour your itching powder with nagas.

Behave, far too cold out there to ride like a mentalist and not die! Far too cold to be out at all now at your age ;-)

I can still feel the pain in my hands as my £20 gloves did, well, nothing to keep my hands warm, as I rode the 12 miles to college every day... for nearly two years! Thankfully passed my car test on December the 18th, year

The ice was, well, scary yet exciting, just like losing any virginity... Right Dougie? ;-p

After losing my hand virginity, the rest of my virginities have been much of a muchness in comparison.

One always remembers one's first....

Heh, I rode a Yamaha YB100 through a winter up North. I had a pair of £30 gloves. They were shit too :-) Worst night I can remember was back in 1994 in the snow. My mate dropped me off back at my bike in town and went home. I'd left one of my gloves in his car. No mobiles back then, so I had to ride home without it. I took my socks off and put them on my left hand. It was 8 miles of hell..

First time I rode on ice, I didn't realise I was on ice until I fell off and the ride ended. Yep, pretty much like any other virginity then :-(

So it has 2nd gear stretched to give an unrealistic 0-60 time? How very GTi.

Dunno, redline is 6.5k and I know at 70 in 3rd when I first got it was only approaching 6k and sounded awesome.